- From: Oriol Brufau via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:10:55 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> what does block-level element versus just block element mean? See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#block > is this assumption correct? Hard to tell what the arrows represent, but an element has an outer display type and an inner one, yes. See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#display-type > if the outer display type is "block" and the inner display type "flow" or "flow-root" then the formatting context will be a "block formatting context"? See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#block-container "flow-root" always establishes a block formatting context, regardless of the outer display type. "flow" with a block outer display type can either establish a block formatting context, or continue the block formatting context of its parent. In both cases, in addition to the above, it can establish an inline formatting context, or not. > "inline" coupled with "flow/flow-root" it will generate a "inline formatting context" "inline flow" doesn't establish any formatting context at all. "inline flow-root" is covered above. Block formatting context and maybe inline formatting context. -- GitHub Notification of comment by Loirooriol Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13634#issuecomment-4044029355 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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